Brahms: Works for Solo Piano Volume 5

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Plowright’s account of [the First Sonata] indeed feels like a revelation. Its reference to the opening of Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata here appears exploratory, the sound dry but sweet, the... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2018, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 27th Oct 2017
Catalogue No: BIS2147
Label: BIS
Series: Brahms: Works for Solo Piano
Length: 68 minutes

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Brahms: Piano Sonata No. 1 in C major, Op. 1

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Jonathan Plowright (piano)
Recorded: January 2017
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Westleton, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom

I. Allegro

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II. Andante

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III. Scherzo. Allegro molto e con fuoco

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IV. Finale. Allegro con fuoco

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Brahms: Fantasies (7 piano pieces), Op. 116

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Jonathan Plowright (piano)
Recorded: January 2017
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No. 1, Capriccio in D Minor. Presto energico

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No. 2, Intermezzo in A Minor. Andante

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No. 3, Capriccio in G Minor. Allegro passionato

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No. 4, Intermezzo in E Major. Adagio

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No. 5, Intermezzo in E Minor. Andante con grazia ed intimissimo sentimento

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No. 6, Intermezzo in E Major. Andantino teneramente

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No. 7, Capriccio in D Minor. Allegro agitato

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Brahms: Variations on a theme by Schumann in F sharp minor, Op. 9

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Jonathan Plowright (piano)
Recorded: January 2017
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Westleton, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom

Theme. Ziemlich langsam

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Var. 1, L'istesso tempo

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Var. 2, Poco più mosso

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Var. 3, Tempo di tema

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Var. 4, Poco più mosso

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Var. 5, Allegro capriccioso

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Var. 6, Allegro

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Var. 7, Andante

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Var. 8, Andante non troppo lento

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Var. 9, Schnell

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Var. 10, Poco adagio

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Var. 11, Un poco più animato

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Var. 12, Allegretto poco scherzando

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Var. 13, Non troppo presto

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Var. 14, Andante

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Var. 15, Poco adagio

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Var. 16, Adagio

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Having opened his survey of Brahms's music for solo piano with the third piano sonata, Jonathan Plowright has saved the composer's Opus 1, Piano Sonata No. 1 in C major, for the closing disc in the series. Brahms brought the sonata with him when he went to Düsseldorf in October 1853 in order to meet Robert and Clara Schumann – an encounter which has gone down in music history. It was possibly the C major sonata, with its opening reminiscent of Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata, which caused Schumann to liken Brahms to ‘a young eagle’ and a ‘true apostle’.

Very soon after the meeting, Schumann’s mental health began to decline, to the point of him attempting suicide in February 1854. Composed in the same year, Brahms’s Op. 9 Schumann Variations were closely connected with these events and with Robert and Clara. Brahms chose a theme – from Schumann’s collection Bunte Blätter – which Clara herself had composed a set of variations on, and dedicated it to her. Schumann died, hospitalized, in 1856, but Clara and Brahms remained intimate friends and some forty years later, Clara was one of the first persons to whom Brahms showed the newly composed set of Fantasies, Op. 116: ‘wonderfully original’ was her reaction, and later performers and listeners have agreed with her.

Jonathan Plowright has been described as ‘a true and moving poet of the keyboard’ by Gramophone magazine and his Brahms cycle has received critical acclaim, with instalments being singled out in Gramophone (Editor’s Choice), BBC Music Magazine (Instrumental Choice of the Month) and on ClassicsToday.com (‘10/10’).

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March 2018

Plowright’s account of [the First Sonata] indeed feels like a revelation. Its reference to the opening of Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata here appears exploratory, the sound dry but sweet, the energy held in like a coiled spring…Plowright’s approach [to the Schumann variations] is blissfully assured. His virtuosity is dazzling yet relaxed, his effects ravishing.

December 2017

Keen intelligence, striking originality and pianistic finesse are abundantly evident…Those new to the series will no doubt be impressed at the insightful wisdom and love brought to bear on pieces that, in their various ways, are among the more challenging of Brahms’s solo piano music.

January 2018

At the disc’s heart is a sublime performance of the seven Fantasias, each one part-capriccio, part- intermezzo. Plowright takes a more measured view than some, but with no loss of momentum or fantasy. With brilliant sound once again in the best tradition of BIS, this is a glorious close to the new benchmark Brahms piano music survey.

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